Task 4: Audience research

Q1. Male or Female?

                                                         

Male            female

Q2. Which age category do you fall into?

15-18               19-22           23-26            27-30            30+

Q3. Which of the following is your favourite genre?

Horror                comedy           romance                 documentary             thriller

Q4. When switching edits which would you prefer?

Fades                  flashes               black screens

Q5. Would you prefer and open or closed ending?

Open                  closed

Q6. What attracts you more to a film poster?

 Colours                   actors/actresses

Q7. What film magazine do you know?

………………………………………………………………………………………..

Q8. What age would you prefer your main character to be?

16-20                 21-25             26-30             30+

Q9. Would you want inter titles at the end of the trailer?

Yes               no

Q10. What type of music do you like to hear in a trailer?

………………………………………………………………………………………….

Q11. Which would you prefer?

Voice over                    inter titles               both

Results from questionnaire

Q1. In order for me to get an average statistic I asked 5 males and 5 females.

Q2. Within this question all the females I asked were 15-18 and 4 out of the 5 males were 15-18 and 1 out of the 5 was 19-22. I found that I should have maybe got more of an age range for my females as it won’t give me an average age for my target audience. My male age category gives m e two age groups which are mainly 15-18years old which again doesn’t give me an average age but again it makes it easier for me to have average age.

Q3. This question showed me that males and females took upon their stereotype with favourite genres as with the males 2 out of 5 chose thriller whereas 3 out of the 5 males chose horror but with the females 5 out of 5 comedy and 3 out of 5 chose to combine comedy with romance, whereas 1 out of 5 chose to combine comedy with thriller. With these results I got a conventional response.

Q4. These results showed me that 5 out of 10 people chose to have edits switched by fades, 4 out of 10 people chose to have the edits switched by flashes and 1 out of 10 people chose to have the screens switch to black when changing edits. 

Q5. With this question 5 out of 10 people chose to have an open ending whereas 5 out of 10 chose to have the ending closed.

Q6. 8 out of 10 people decided that it is actors/actresses which attract people to look at a film poster and 2 out of 10 people decided it was colour which would get their attention more. 

Q7. With this question the aim for me was to get more understanding of the type of film magazines people read as well as their conventions and design layouts. I found that not many people knew film magazines but did find empire and total film.

Q8.  With these results I wanted to get an idea of what my audience would prefer my actors/actresses to be. I found that 6 out of 10 people decided that characters should be 21-25 and 2 out of 10 people decided that character should be 16-20.

Q9. I found that 8 out 10 people wanted to see inter titles at the end of the trailer whereas 2 out of 10 decided it wasn’t a convention they wanted to see.

Q10. From this question I found that on an average people prefer to have music that just anchors the genre whereas I did get the minority who would want composed music or horror.

Q11. From this question I found that 7 out of 10 people would want both voice over and inter titles on the trailer whereas 3 out of 10 people would just prefer to have a voice over.